Missouri Mid-South Resource Library

Listed below are some of the Resources that are available to borrow from the Conference Office.  To make arrangements to borrow a resources, please contact Kathy Ressler.  Phone: 314-981-2602, 1-877-877-5884 toll free, email: kathy@mmsucc.org

New Books

In Dying We Are Born - The Challenge and the Hope for Congregations, author Peter Bush

   Deeply ingrained in Western culture, and in the minds of most church leaders, is the belief that there is a solution to every problem.  Peter Bush offers a powerful challenge to this approach, arguing that for new life, energy, and passion to arise in congregations, they must die-die to one way of being the church in order that a new way may rise. Some congregations need to dramatically change their culture and ways of doing ministry, requiring people to give up deeply held understandings of the life and purpose of the congregation.
   A skillful storyteller, Bush shows readers why churches must confront their mortality.  He examines the role of the prophetic leader, who proclaims both the congregation's death and its resurrection.  He explores spiritual practices and the habits of wonder, remembering, and risk taking for congregations that know they are dying or need to die.  Only by dying, Bush says, will a congregation find resurrection life. given by God.

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